Scorpio (genus) explained

Scorpio is a genus of scorpions belonging to the family Scorpionidae. The species in this genus are found in northern Africa and western Asia.^[1]

Species

Scorpio was regarded as a monotypic genus for a long time, containing one widespread and highly variable species, S. maurus, which had many subspecies. It has since been recognised that within S. maurus sensu lato there were a number of taxa which should be regarded as valid species and new species have been described from sub-Saharan Africa:^{[2] [3] [4]}

• Scorpio birulai Fet, 1997
• Scorpio fuliginosus (Pallary, 1928)
• Scorpio hesperus Birula, 1910
• Scorpio maurus Linnaeus, 1758
• Scorpio mogadorensis Birula, 1910
• Scorpio niger Lourenço & Cloudsley-Thompson, 2012
• Scorpio punicus Fet, 2000
• Scorpio occidentalis Werner, 1936
• Scorpio savanicola Lourenço, 2009
• Scorpio sudanensis Lourenço & Cloudsley-Thompson, 2009
• Scorpio weidholzi Werner, 1929

Notes and References

1. Book: Fet . Victor . W. David . Sissom . Graeme . Lowe . Matt E. . Braunwalder . and . Catalog of the Scorpions of the World (1758-1998) . New York Entomological Society . 2000 . Scorpionidae .
2. Web site: A new species of Scorpio from Niger . 2 February 2022 . 3 October 2012 . The Scorpion Files.
3. Wilson R. Lourenço . John L. Cloudsley-Thompson . 2012 . About the enigmatic presence of the genus Scorpio Linnaeus, 1758 in Congo with the description of a new species from Niger (Scorpiones, Scorpionidae) . Serket . 13 . 1/2 . 1–7 .
4. Wilson R. Lourenço . 2009 . Reanalysis of the genus Scorpio Linnaeus 1758 in sub-Saharan Africa and description of one new species from Cameroon (Scorpiones, Scorpionidae) . Entomologische Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum Hamburg . 15 . 181 . 99–113 .